For two whole days on Star-Gold Planet, Pirate Queen Hong Ye fought the hardest battle of her life.
It was not a battle against flying swords, nor was it a duel against Pei Xuan’s Nine-World Planetary Lord Seal. It was a battle against the ten-mile-wide aroma drifting out of Star-Train Dining Car #1.
On the first evening, after Mining Crew #10 finished leveling Mountain #1, Hong Ye had marched back to her foreman’s tent, crossed her legs on her iron cot, and declared a hunger strike.
“I am a Half-Step Star Realm expert!” Hong Ye had snapped at her three bald sworn brothers when they tried to hand her a tin lunchbox. “A cultivator of my realm can live on cosmic starlight and pure Qi for ten years without touching mortal grain! Do you remember how Mad-Dog Kui betrayed the Blood-Skull Fleet? He ate one bowl of their braised pork and turned into a yellow-vested lapdog! Listen to me—their food is definitely drugged with a demonic mind-control spell! Don’t eat a single bite!”
First Admiral Iron-Claw Hu Bao, Second Admiral Lie Feng, and Third Admiral Yin Sha had nodded solemnly and sworn a blood oath to starve alongside their Big Sister.
